Ally Financial

I am very upset with the Ally Bank commercials. I agreee with others. The word that fits is taunting these children. I change the channel as soon as one comes on. I would never use this bank's services or promote them to anyone else. Children, at the age used are just starting to figure out who they are and how they interact with others. It is disgracing that a bank would stoop this low. Very upset and would suggest you change your marketing tactics.

I totally agree that the commercial is tasteless and a very bad example, I crunch each time I have to look at it. It is disgusting and a very bad example for our children and grandchildren. The adult in the commercial portraits a hurtful attitude towards the child! Please, remove this ad!
R. Hulstein
Surrey BC

These are not all child actors. Some of the kids were selected form a casting call out in a New Jersey elementary school. So what you are seeing are genuine reactions of disappointment, anger and sadness--all from prepubescent children. Who is to know what the effects of not only being tricked by a seemingly trustworthy adult, but also by the parents who shooed them into the casting call. And lets not forget the ubiquity of these commercials-- a constant reminder for these kids of their being deceived by adults for the world to see. Can you gaurantee these kdis aren't feeling humiliated? Can you gaurantee these kdis aren't being picked on or ostrasized for unqillingly playing the fool?

The moral blindness evidenced here makes perfect sense when you consider the source-- A GM-created loan agency desperately attempting to shed all association and responsibility for contributing to the financial collapse of our economy.

It is not at all about the children ladies, get passed that elementary observation. It's like you're lokced into limbic "feelings" mode with no possible relief of logic.

This is about the white male figure doing the bad things, the tormenting, the power over, sustaining of disadvantage over of any group, whether children, minorities, women whatever...get a grip...that is the sterotyping in these commercials.

The commercials should spread thet blame around, having black women as the power figure, wise latino females...like Hollywood showcasing them as judges and authoirty figures in all other media representation. Be consistant I say.

The lastest Commercial concerning the ice cream is worse than all the others. I did not think they could get worse. My husband and I turn channels when any of your commercials come on. Please remove all the commercials concerning the children. They are cruel and disgusting. Thank God, most of the adults in the world do not treat children this way. The commercials are not funny, but very offensive. We do not think the commercials will help your business, but will discjourage people from doing business with a company that adults as mistreating children. Shame on you.

I find the ads of the children disgusting. It shows the adults mean, lying, and unfair to the chidren. I think they should all be taken off the TV. I would not deal with a bank or any business that treats children or adults that way. Shame on your company. Surely someone can create commercials that are not offensive.

I totally agree with the complaints about your exploiting children's innocence in your commercials. Using children as pawns in your commercials, by making them look stupid and taking advantage of them is disgusting.

Well, with all the crap Ally Bank pulls on kids, there has to be a pony in there somewhere.

The damaging element in the adds is that they use a white man to issue the trauma to the children.

In this day of the media & Hollywood showcasing minorities as judges, as authority figures beyond their percentage in society, gender activism, no one is complaining about this add perpetuating the evil of and the "white man guilt" syndrome.

I say they should spread the blame around, using women and minorities to stress out the children. This would be more accurate anyway. The problems I encounter with bureaucracies are the dull, entry level staff, usually the women manning the phones at that level.

But the policies are devised by ambitious mid level executives, the diverse and multicultural, then they are signed off on up the ladder to an insulated leadership within Ally. It is about results and passion, the attention they get from this blogging is precisely the kind of reaction and product the advertising company needs to prove they are effective.

Your commericals are rotten and abusive and mean spirtied...I would never use your services. You think it is funny? It is ignorant and you are propagating the ugly underbelly of how society treats innocents. So shame on you all. Your apparent lack of creativity and plethora of ill-will is where the spirit of your organization is at. You will not last... When you could have made better, braver and smarter choices...you are now in the category of "What is wrong in America." And, yes, by the way I do have a sense of humor...